Party Political Representation in Portugal

Party Political Homogamy in Great

This paper focuses on husbands' and wives' party political identifications in combination. There is a high level of party political homogamy in Great Britain (i.e. spouses tend to share the same party political identification). Statistical analyses show that levels of homogamy vary according to strength of party political identification, parental homogamy, age and marital status. Levels of part...

Political party affiliation, political ideology and mortality.

BACKGROUND Ecological and cross-sectional studies have indicated that conservative political ideology is associated with better health. Longitudinal analyses of mortality are needed because subjective assessments of ideology may confound subjective assessments of health, particularly in cross-sectional analyses. METHODS Data were derived from the 2008 General Social Survey-National Death Inde...

Political Connections and Related-Party Transactions: Evidence from Iranian Firms

The present study aims to investigate the association between political connections and related-party transactions for the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Sample includes the 485 firm-year observations from companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2013 to 2017 and research hypothesis was tested using multivariate regression model based on panel data.We fin...

Party attachment and political accountability

This paper analyzes a political accountability model with an electorate of ’partisan’and ’swing’voters. It is shown that politicians have a strategic incentive to engage in ’divisive politics’(that is, to force some independent voters to take sides) even if the direct electoral bene…ts are higher for their opponents than for themselves. By polarizing the electorate, the incumbent politician wea...

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